Shin-seiki wrote:You know, I've never once seen a post-3I dojin or fanfic that explores the idea (which to me is a perfectly natural assumption) that the other characters will come back sooner or later; it's invariably just Shinji and Asuka doing the "Adam and Eve" deal... _

The S/A Adam and Eve stuff is at least truer to what we are given than what is all too common in continuation fics - at best a selective pick'n'mix from EoE (things like Shanejayell's "Third Genesis" come to mind here), discarding stuff that gets in the way of business as usual.

You're more likely to find instances of other returnees post-3I in the final scenes of alternate or crossover fics e.g. the Utena crossover, Shin Kakumei Evangelion; or my own humble work.

Joeshie wrote:Same for me. I fully support an A/S relationship, but when you look at the evidence, the possibility of an Adam/Eve scenario is very unlikely.

Yep, it's highly unlikely, especially when Yui told Shinji that people can return if they want. I think it's safe to assume that from the billions of people in the sea of LCL, at least one more person would come back.

Digitalex wrote:Yep, it's highly unlikely, especially when Yui told Shinji that people can return if they want. I think it's safe to assume that from the billions of people in the sea of LCL, at least one more person would come back.

And that one person would be Pen-Pen!!! But seriously i agree with that i mean some ppl have to know who they are, even if it takes billions of years. I also understand how a lot of ppl hate the Adam/Eve theory b/c it seems more like a cliche in the end for me. I also like the Shinji/Asuka relationship just not that they can have thousands of kids.

Well, if Asuka borrowed some tricks from the arthropod world, she could have sex with Shinji once and safely store all of the received sperm in a special place. Then her abdomen could swell to termite queen proportions and she could selectively release sperm to fertilize ova as needed. She could produce maybe two dozen infants at once in her grotesquely enlarged, multichambered uterus, and it would be Shinji's job to singlehandedly raise them all, while tending to the Queen (who has been rendered immobile, but no less loud and bitchy). Asuka is fed a steady diet of LCL (which provides all the nutrients she needs) brought by the bucketfull from the sea, while the chldren fight over Asuka's mammaries, which are now 12 in number and go all the way down to her navel. Despite Asuka's constant whining, Shinji is hesitant to share this particular burden.

Reichu wrote:Asuka is fed a steady diet of LCL (which provides all the nutrients she needs) brought by the bucketfull from the sea, while the chldren fight over Asuka's mammaries, which are now 12 in number and go all the way down to her navel. Despite Asuka's constant whining, Shinji is hesitant to share this particular burden.

Reichu wrote:Well, if Asuka borrowed some tricks from the arthropod world, she could have sex with Shinji once and safely store all of the received sperm in a special place. Then her abdomen could swell to termite queen proportions and she could selectively release sperm to fertilize ova as needed. She could produce maybe two dozen infants at once in her grotesquely enlarged, multichambered uterus, and it would be Shinji's job to singlehandedly raise them all, while tending to the Queen (who has been rendered immobile, but no less loud and bitchy). Asuka is fed a steady diet of LCL (which provides all the nutrients she needs) brought by the bucketfull from the sea, while the chldren fight over Asuka's mammaries, which are now 12 in number and go all the way down to her navel. Despite Asuka's constant whining, Shinji is hesitant to share this particular burden.

Wow ... possibly the second most disturbing thing I've ever read on an Internet forum.

Reichu wrote:Well, if Asuka borrowed some tricks from the arthropod world, she could have sex with Shinji once and safely store all of the received sperm in a special place. Then her abdomen could swell to termite queen proportions and she could selectively release sperm to fertilize ova as needed. She could produce maybe two dozen infants at once in her grotesquely enlarged, multichambered uterus, and it would be Shinji's job to singlehandedly raise them all, while tending to the Queen (who has been rendered immobile, but no less loud and bitchy). Asuka is fed a steady diet of LCL (which provides all the nutrients she needs) brought by the bucketfull from the sea, while the chldren fight over Asuka's mammaries, which are now 12 in number and go all the way down to her navel. Despite Asuka's constant whining, Shinji is hesitant to share this particular burden.

Lastie wrote:I get the feeling they were all written by Shinji/Asuka shippers.

There are actually two different narratives there - it one most of the cast return; in the other...

According to the fragment that Reichu translated from that strand, it is an Adam and Eve...In the year 2015 A.D., due to Third Impact, people vanished from the face of the Earth...Two people -- a boy and a girl -- are left behind.The boy's name is Shinji Ikari.The girl's name is Asuka Langley Soryu.They both want to live/exist together.

In the year 2016 A.D., in the new 0 century, the story of the new centuryof two people (only two people, two people alone) continues...

Reichu wrote:Well, if Asuka borrowed some tricks from the arthropod world, she could have sex with Shinji once and safely store all of the received sperm in a special place. Then her abdomen could swell to termite queen proportions and she could selectively release sperm to fertilize ova as needed. She could produce maybe two dozen infants at once in her grotesquely enlarged, multichambered uterus, and it would be Shinji's job to singlehandedly raise them all, while tending to the Queen (who has been rendered immobile, but no less loud and bitchy). Asuka is fed a steady diet of LCL (which provides all the nutrients she needs) brought by the bucketfull from the sea, while the chldren fight over Asuka's mammaries, which are now 12 in number and go all the way down to her navel. Despite Asuka's constant whining, Shinji is hesitant to share this particular burden.